Comprehensive summary of the conventions, treaties and agreements administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Comprehensive summary of the conventions, treaties and agreements administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Comprehensive summary of the conventions, treaties and agreements administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization.

The aim of this Guide is to present, as simply and clearly as possible, the contents of the Berne Convention and to provide a number of explanations as to its nature, aims and scope.

Consists of the text of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (1996), and the relevant provisions of the Berne Convention (1971).

This Guide is primarily intended for applicants and holders of international registrations of marks, as well as officials of the competent administrations of the Member States of the Madrid Union. It leads them through the various steps of the international registration procedure and explains the essential provisions of the Madrid Agreement, the Madrid Protocol and the Common Regulations.

This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.

NAture of obligations, principles and objectives; Substantive obligations; Intellectual property rights and competition; Enforcemente, maintenance and acquisition of rights; Interpretation and dispute settlement and prevention; Transitional and institutional arragements.